Telegram-herald., 1887-08-08

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Yea haa ths means - Prosa-e fef she ooFa-
fort II yo0s hoassaold VIXEN va isss j ard
yfa wsck-sslx neslerssa * .OA.T sass sonse
ore. II kssa iaors f2ltA tkas. yos. lsiisxe
when / 70 oat q fhss wofa1 tae Isera
wiu provide for tAefn.s Ca u Bz-x-
wells Island. g tAroaga ali t1s tss-oft0as>s
Of the eoaatfy, ant VII skoss you kow
often God provides FOR the nexlscted chHdren
q neglsctful parents Thst Is. he provides
for then fsroagh public Charity. As Ter
myself, woald rather have the l. ri yrosisie
for uy famsily IL a private home. ana through
NV own industry. ard pafernsl and conjagal
faithfulness Bar says some man: a slean
Ia the aexJ ter or tweatF years 70 make q
great fortune. aud ~ I silall leave rav f4Hliy
when / 20 cut Of shis ~orld, very comfort
able Hos 90 you know yaa are going %
live ten 0r twenty years. II Ne could look
up the highway II tie future. n would soe il
crossed by pneumonias, and pienf,ies, and
consumptlous, and coliillns fall trains, AMI
runaway horses, and breaking bridges and
funeral PROFESSIONS. Are Yoa ~ certain sou
are going % i've ten CT twenty years, sou can
warrant your household any comfort after you
go away ffoai tlemi Beside that. tie vast
ma lor.ty OF men die poori Two only out of
a hundred succeed IN business. Are
yoa very certain yon ara gems
10 be one OF tho twof Rirb one
day, poor the next 4 man in New York
got 81 coo CoO. and the money turned BIS
brain and he died Ia lunatic asyluIn AL
his property was left with the business FIRM,
and they swarnped IL. ard then the family OF
the insane man were left without a dollar. In
eighteen months the prosperity. the insanity.
the insolvency, and the complete domestic
ruin Beside that. there are men who die
solvent who are insolvent before they got
under the ground, or before their estate IS
settled up How soon the auctionocr's mallet
can knock The life qist of an estate 4 man
thinks the property Is worth $4,000; urder
forced sale it brinrs $1,000. The business
man takes advantage OF tie crisis and he
compels the widow Of his deceased part
ner 10 sell out 10 him n ruiaous
price. or lose all The stock was sup
posed 70 be very valuable, but il has
been 50 "watered7 that wnen the executor
tries 70 sell IL he Is laughed out Of Wall street,
or the administrator is ordered by the s.aro
gate 10 wind up the whole affair. The estate
was supposed at the mans death to b. worth
60,C00 but after the indebtedness lad been
met, and the bills Of the doctor ard the un-
dertaker. and the tombstone cutter have been
paid, there is nothing left. That means tna
children ara 10 come home from school and
go 10 work That mems the complete hard
shin Cf the wife, turned out with nothing bu.
a needle 10 fight t-e great battle Of the World
Tear down the lambrequins, close the piano
rip up the Administer. sell ont tho wardrobe,
and let the mother take child IN each hanl
and trudge out into the desert of the world
A life insurance would have hiudered al
that.
But. saws some one II am a man of SNAIL
means, ard / can't afford 10 pay the preiHi-
um" That is sometimes q lawful and gen
uine excuse, ana there IS no answer t. il; hut
IN ninc cases out of ten when q man says THAI
he smokes up in cigars, and drinks down Ia
wine, and e1peuds in iuxurios enough money
10 have n"'' the premium on n life insurance
policy which would have kept bis family from
bcGrary when he is dead 4 man ought to
put himself down on the strc--st economy
until be can meet this Christian necessity.
You have 10 right to the luzuries Of N-s r''-
Ill you have made such provision admir-
what was SAID by Rev. d.. Guthrie, t. gsoat
Scottish preacher a few years before his
death he stood in a public meeting ,.n1 dc
clered, when | came 70 Edinburgh tie REQ
pie sometimes laughed at my blue stockings
I
looked lie common plowmar, and they de-
rided mo because ] lived u = house OF which
paid a3J rent q year, and otteItimus
walked VIXEN l would have boon vory p "a =
have 4 cab; but, gcntle.lcn, Gid ali that be-
cause / wanted 10 pay the premium or lie
insurance that would keep NY family COM
Portable il I should die" ghat I take 10 se
the right expression OF al honest, intel.t
gent, Christian man.
Tho utter Indifference of many people or
this important subject accounts for much Of
the crime AM tho paupeTism OF lao day.
Who are those children sweeping The cross
inrs with broken broom and begging of You
a penny rs y0u 90 by} Who are these lot
souls gliding under the gaslishr, in thin
shawlsl Al they are the victims Of want;
in many or tie cases the forecast OF parent
and grandparents might have prohibited IL.
God only knows how they struggled 70 DO
right. They prayed until the tear, fro1a or
their cheeks, they sewai Oh the sec.. uItA fae
breaking OF the day. but tacv couil not get
! enough money to pay i-e rent. tacy
could nos get enough money - dc
Gently clotbc tkcmseives; ana cne day
In that wretched home the argel *
purity and the angel of cilme sougat
a great fght between the empty bread tray
and the hreless hearth. and the blackwrged
angel shrielred: ~Aha, nave won the day"
/ Saws some nan. II believe what sou sly,
Il is l1rbt AID Christian, and ! mean soue-
time 20 attend 10 this matter. Ny friend.
you are going 10 lose tee comfort of yolr
household in The same way the sinner ioses
heaven, by procrasti,-ation. SOC ali
around me the des;itato and suffering iarlilies
of parents who meant some day % attend
90 this Christian duty. During TIE process
Of adjournment the man gets hIs feet wet
then comes a chill and delirium and the
d0lefrl shake of the doctors bead. and tac
obSequies. II thero he anything more p.tiab.e
than a woman dciicately brought mp, end on
her marriage day ty an indulgent father
/ given 70 n man 20 whom she is tho chief Soy
and pride OF L fn until tia moment Of his death,
and then that some woman going cut vltb
helpless children a. nor back 10 struggle for
bread IN q world where bTavny r1usCfa and
| rugged soul are necassarv-I say. if there D.
anytbing more pitiable than that. / CO net
know what it - And yet there 80 good
women who are indifferent in regard 20 their
husbands duty in this resJ><ct. and there are
those POSITIVELY hostile. as though q Iss
insurance sIhiected man 70 sgr1s
fatality There ia brooklyn tos1v
very poor woman keeping a snail candy
shop. who vsherleutiy oppozei tae Insurance
- her hnsba4fs he. and when a-rl aticn
had been made for = policy of $1,000 shs
frustrated T.. Sae would never have g doc
rToent in the house that implied it vas u9s
SHE FOR ber 4si11Ild ever 20 de. Cns day. n
quick rsvol1f.sa q macl4nerY, his hfs vas